Performance: Red Carpet. A vocal-body composition for extended singer and dancer.

Composition is one of the most unexpressed possibilities of the Extended Singer, the idiomatic figure at the core of my doctoral project. The pure creative process is the third and last stage of emancipation to which the contemporary music interpreter can aspire to redeem herself/himself from the standard position of a mere executor of someone else’s music.

This case study was expressly designed to test the risk of exposing a singer to the challenge of pure composition, in collaboration with a dancer, Valentina Sechi, using no score and no charts, to build a performance based on only two elements: voice and body.

Red Carpet is a performance that, ranging between present and past, investigates forms of exorcisation of repression in the feminine, understood as a collective archetype, that has always had to devise ways and means to manifest itself and survive in its essence. On the Red Carpet parade images of women, two but numerous, who embody through the use of multiple vocal techniques and corporal utterances, the cries of a “collective trauma”, which suffocates the expression of the self.

Body and voice are the protagonists as they are symbols of both censorship and expression par excellence and are used as a means of individual exploration and collective voicing. On this red carpet, a metaphor for formal public exposure, the singer tries to give voice to those who are told to remain silent and the dancer to give substance to catharsis, in a succession of anarchic fragilities and ferocious desires for survival.     

Read more about Felicita Brusoni's artistic research at IAC here.

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